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matzicoltic.

Headword: 
matzicoltic.
Principal English Translation: 

one-handed, one-armed; having only one hand (see Molina and Siméon)

IPAspelling: 
mɑːtsikoltik
Alonso de Molina: 

matzicoltic. manco dela mano.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 53v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

matzicoltic (adj. v.) = manco, que sólo tiene una mano (r. matzicoliui)
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), 262.